The search for 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway is widening with authorities now investigating whether there is a connection between her disappearance and the abduction of a Wyoming girl on Monday.

"We are not ruling anything out at this time. Both investigations are continuing," said FBI spokesman Dave Joly.

An 11-year-old girl and a friend were approached by a man in a white sports utility vehicle in Cody, Wyo., on Monday morning who asked for help finding his lost black labrador puppy, according to a Cody police department release.

One of the girls, told the man she would help him and " entered the front passenger side of the vehicle," according to the release.

The girl, 11, who was abducted at about 4:30 p.m., was spotted walking on a road just outside Cody at about 8:15 p.m. She told police that when she approached the vehicle the man flashed a pistol and told her to get into the front passenger seat.

"Upon her release by the suspect, she began walking down the road until she was picked up by a party of hunters," the release said.

"We are not ignoring the fact that we have somewhat similar situations in a short period of time," said Jefferson County Sheriff's spokeswoman Jacki Kelley. "Whether they are related or not, we cannot say one way or the other."

Ridgeway disappeared when after leaving her Westminster home for school Friday morning.

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The Wyoming suspect is described as a white man, between 55 and 60 years old, 185 to 200 pounds with short, strawberry blonde or white hair, and a neatly trimmed strawberry blonde or white mustache or beard. He was wearing a brown shirt, blue jeans, and a tan baseball type cap.

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